Computational Enhancement of Molecularly Targeted Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound: Application to Human Breast Tumor Imaging

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2006.11993v1
• Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2020 03:45:52 GMT
• Title: Computational Enhancement of Molecularly Targeted Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound: Application to Human Breast Tumor Imaging
• Authors: Andrew A. Berlin, Mon Young, Ahmed El Kaffas, Sam Gambhir, Amelie Lutz, Maria Luigia Storto, and Juergen Willmann
• Abstract summary: Molecularly targeted contrast enhanced ultrasound (mCEUS) is a clinically promising approach for early cancer detection. We have developed computational enhancement techniques for mCEUS tailored to address the unique challenges of imaging contrast accumulation in humans.
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• Abstract: Molecularly targeted contrast enhanced ultrasound (mCEUS) is a clinically promising approach for early cancer detection through targeted imaging of VEGFR2 (KDR) receptors. We have developed computational enhancement techniques for mCEUS tailored to address the unique challenges of imaging contrast accumulation in humans. These techniques utilize dynamic analysis to distinguish molecularly bound contrast agent from other contrast-mode signal sources, enabling analysis of contrast agent accumulation to be performed during contrast bolus arrival when the signal due to molecular binding is strongest. Applied to the 18 human patient examinations of the first-in-human molecular ultrasound breast lesion study, computational enhancement improved the ability to differentiate between pathology-proven lesion and pathology-proven normal tissue in real-world human examination conditions that involved both patient and probe motion, with improvements in contrast ratio between lesion and normal tissue that in most cases exceed an order of magnitude (10x). Notably, computational enhancement eliminated a false positive result in which tissue leakage signal was misinterpreted by radiologists to be contrast agent accumulation.

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